{"id":6509,"date":"2025-01-21T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6509"},"modified":"2025-01-31T07:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:53:47","slug":"updike-essay-receives-a-pushcart-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2025\/01\/21\/updike-essay-receives-a-pushcart-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay on Updike receives Pushcart nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6510\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2025\/01\/Neshaminy-197x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2025\/01\/Neshaminy-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2025\/01\/Neshaminy.png 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>Jeff Werner, of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/doylestown\/journal-nominates-bucks-co-writers-prestigious-pushcart-prize\"><em>Patch<\/em><\/a>, writes that the editors of\u00a0<em>Neshaminy: The Bucks County Historical and Literary Journal\u00a0<\/em>nominated two essays for The Pushcart Prizes, as literary magazines are allowed to do. One, by Lee Bigelow Davis and Melissa D. Sullivan, was on &#8220;Operation &#8217;64: A Matter of Civic Pride.&#8221; The other was an essay by Don Swaim:\u00a0 &#8220;John Updike\u2014One Walks by Faith, and One Writes by Faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swaim&#8217;s essay was published in the Fall\/Winter 2024 issue of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/neshaminyjournal.org\/\">Neshamany: The Bucks County Historical and Literary Journal<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Werner, of\u00a0Patch, writes that the editors of\u00a0Neshaminy: The Bucks County Historical and Literary Journal\u00a0nominated two essays for The Pushcart Prizes, as literary magazines are allowed to do. One, by Lee Bigelow Davis and Melissa D. Sullivan, was on &#8220;Operation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2025\/01\/21\/updike-essay-receives-a-pushcart-nomination\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-updike-in-context","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6509\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}